Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] MCS Lock: Make mcs_spinlock.h includable inother files

[Tim Chen]

On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 19:57 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:42:39AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> > + * The _raw_mcs_spin_lock() function should not be called directly. Instead,
> > + * users should call mcs_spin_lock().
> >   */
> > -static noinline
> > -void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> > +static inline
> > +void _raw_mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> >  {
> >  	struct mcs_spinlock *prev;
> >  
> 
> So why keep it in the header at all?

I also made the suggestion originally of keeping both lock and unlock in
mcs_spinlock.c.  Wonder if Waiman decides to keep them in header 
because in-lining the unlock function makes execution a bit faster?

Tim

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